mosaic

noun

• 1a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, etc.:mosaics on the interior depict scenes from the Old Testament [mass noun]:the walls and vaults are decorated by marble and mosaic
• a colourful and variegated pattern:the bird’s plumage was a mosaic of slate-grey, blue, and brown
• a combination of diverse elements forming a more or less coherent whole:a cultural mosaic
• an arrangement of photosensitive elements in a television camera.

• 2 Biology an individual (especially an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types.

• 3 (also mosaic disease) a virus disease that results in leaf variegation in tobacco, maize, sugar cane, and other plants.

verb (mosaics, mosaicking, mosaicked)

• decorate with a mosaic: (as adjective mosaicked)the mosaicked swimming pool
• combine (distinct or disparate elements) to form a picture or pattern: the digital data were combined, or mosaicked, to delineate counties

adjective

• denoting an individual composed of cells of two genetically different types.